The Waterbury Democrat. [volume], May 15, 1931, Page TWENTY-EIGHT, Image 28

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Good evening.
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TO A POPPY
In memory’s name I’ll wear you.
With soldiers you’ve a flair.
Your blood red hue reminds us
Of the blood shed over there.
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Believe it. . . . Medical authorities, figuring in the Seymour
shooting, claim it was impossible for the victim to call the telephone
operator after the bullet had gone through his heart. Well, here’s
One for them to chew on. In 1904, a battle was staged on River
street. A foreigner, firing from a veranda, shot Joe McLean in the
right leg. Jim Madden, police officer at the time, fired at Joe’s
assailant. He shot the man through the heart. Despite this fact, the
foreigner ran across the roof of the building, jumped to the ground
and then ran one hundred feet along the street before collapsing and
dying.
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Editor Tall Tower Topics: Everybody I 'know has a different cure
for this depression. But I think that if they laid off the married women
who have husbands working, it would help a lot. I think it is selfishness
on the part of these women to keep jobs when married men with families
are walking the streets looking for work. I would like your opinion on
this question. — Mrs. D. H. O.
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Gonip. . . To Brother Julian. Thanks for .the booklet. I'll
keep it as an "hair’ loom. . . , Ed Finn is no longer superstitious
about the 13th. He received his appointment as judge last Wednes
day. the 13th. .. . Cy O’Donnell has gone in for gold fish breeding.
He intends to cross silver perch with the gold fish and give us silver
threads among the gold. . . . The city’s champ forty-five team headed
by Andrew Geary can expect a challenge from the runner-ups in the
recent battle. The runner-ups, headed by Mike Goggins, claim they
can take the champs over if given another opportunity. So we’ll
just sit back and see what happens. . . Bernie Shelley and Gerald
Ratzke motored to Hartford recently to see the tulips in Bushnell
park... Of the ten drummers in St Francis corps, five are newsboys,
Bd Hartnett, Frank Donahue, Walter Budd, Bill Kenney and John
Blacker. . . .
-LoJ
Dear Christy: Will wild violets grow in the garden? I can’t say
that they will, but they have. My young daughter brought them from
tilt woods last year and put them in the flower bed. They're all in
blomom now. Tell the lady she can look them over. — C. L. T.
{(Thanks, Clarence, for the information. I certainly appreciate your inter
est. — Christy),
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Briefs. . . I guess papas like to have their mamas full of pep.
A Bridgeport man, suing in a local court for divorce, told the judge
a few days ago that he was affectionate by nature but his wife was
“cold,” so he wanted a separation. Try this with your Sunday
dinner... . They’ve opened a news stand and shoe shine parlor in the
; entrance of the Buckingham building. A bit of old Noo Yawk for
the village gadabouts. . . I understand quite a few Waterburians visit
the Sleeping Giant golf course to try their hand on the fairway. . . .
Wally Roy is gasolining through the streets of the village in a Ford
roadster. . . . Charley Green gives evidence of polished ability at the
wheel of bis Pierce Arrow. . . .
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Hello. Christy: Just a line to let you know that we home folks are
well and happy. We have quite a delegation here at the club. Cal Tobin,
Johnny Mulcahy. Danny Moore, Catherine Moyniban and myself. We
l all want to be remembered to the folks and I sincerely confess we miss
vhe Democrat and so I am going to ask you to put my name on the mailing
list, so we can read the home news. Looking forward to receiving the
Democrat soon, I remain. Sincerely — Ted Hurley, Seawanhak Corin
thian Yacht Club. Oyster Bay, New York.
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Tower readers are ever anxious to aid members of the Tower
family. One of my women friends asked if violets can be grown in
the garden. I published her query and yesterday morning Mrs Fred
1 ■ • Blakeslee kindly called to say they will. They are easily transplanted,
she tells me. The best place to put them in is on the north side of
the house, atfay from the sun. And give them plenty of water. She
planted her violets in a pansy bed, telling me they require about the
same, care. I want to thank Mrs Blakeslee and “C. L. T.” whose
letters also appear in this column to-night.—The Ed.
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This is "National Hardware and Better Medals Week’’ for Mark
Chipman who saw action in the chemical warfare service during the World
War. Mark served as "private unassigned,’’ at the Edgewood arsenal in
Maryland. Within the past week, Mark’s two war decorations arrived.
On* came from the government at Washington and the other the state
house in Hartford. Upon their arrival, Mark donned the olive drab,
worried himself into the spirals and called up his personal photographer
to arrange for a sitting. Following the sitting, Mark will go to New
York and pose for a painting before the celebrated Chinese artist, Ipainte
manyway. When copies of the painting arrive, Mark will autograph them
and honor the hundreds of Waterburians who are expected to write in.
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Did you know that: ... A former Waterbury lassie is now a
"ten cents a dance girl," in a New York jazz palace. She has ap
peared in amateur theatricals in this city. . . Ex-Mayor Frank Guil
foile thinks Pete Shea has the best stock of laughs in Waterbury. . . .
A South Main street jewelry store put a screen door on its establish
ment more than a month ago. . . Waterbury has had more conven
tions thus far this year than any other similar period in the city’s
history. . . . The merry-go-round traffic idea at Stanley park is be
coming standard throughout the state. . . . The soda counters in
some of the drug stores turn in more money than the other depart
ments. . . Henry Lynch has become one of the best night cashiers in
the east. . . . The green, back in the days of horse cars was nothing
but a swamp and during summer evenings the "peepers" furnished
concerts for the town’s gadabouts as they iron hatted about the town
pump. .. . Booth's Hill was considered a real high point of elevation.
.... Division street, in its earlier years, was the start of farm land and
cows grazed contentedly along its grass flanked sides. . . . "Hot
meadows," a spot in the Naugatuck river opposite the old scrap iron
field was a favorite bathing place for youngsters in the early 1900’s.
.... Ice cream cones and college ices first came into popularity about
1910. . . . Thomas Condon was principal of the Barnard school
twenty-five years ago. . . The wall around Riverside cemetery is -the
longest of its type in Waterbury. . . . The old "poor cemetery" was
once part of Chase park where it borders Sunnyside avenue. . . . Wil
low street twenty years ago was Waterbury's "Fifth avenue." . . •
Jack Freney was on the stage before his gold tooth days and took
hundreds of curtain calls throughout the country. . . .
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plex reaches what Wall street calls
"new lows" every time a fresh chide
book to New York comes along.
And, for some reason, a young
deluge of them has suddenly toppled
on my desk. I’m supposed to know
all about New York and yet 1
couldn’t have told you how to catch
a, bus for Bayonne, N. J. . . . I
OUR DAILY NEWS LETTER
By MERRILL E. COMPTON
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Little Rock—The immediate prob
lem of caring for thousands of desti
tute citizens out of the va^, business
leaders, agriculturists, bankers and
state ofDcilas have turned to the pro
gram of increasing the wealth and
well being of the farming class of
this state by a change in farming
programs.
The drought of the past sum
mer, which blistered Helds, burned
cotton and pasture lands and killed
garden crops caused nearly a half
million persons to form bread
lines, and brought on suffering
never before known in the state's
history.
The nearest comparison to the
suffering was reached by the 1927
flood when hundreds of thousands
of persons were driven from their
homes by high water* of the Missis
sippi, White, Arkansas and other
streams and their tributaries.
Sufferers Grouped
But at that time, relief experts
pointed out, the destitute families
were grouped together and control
of disease, feeding and care of the
sick and Injured wa scomparatively
easy in contrast to the situation
that faced state leaders last winter.
The drought brought suffering
early Jn the summer and by Octo
ber larders of hundreds of families
were barren.
Many communities, including
England, in south central Arkansas,
Forrest City, in' the heart of the rich
eastern Arkansas delta cotton land,
and other towns and communities
cared for their hungry families for
several weeks before national atten
tion was focused on this state and
aid came from outside communities.
In January the angry curse of a
fear-driven farmer who had tramp
ed over frozen roads to England to
get food and clothing for his hun
gry children and starving wife,
aroused the nation.
Mob Needed leader,
The farmer was one of a score or
more that milled in the streets and
threatened citizens and merchants
unless their needs were met. The
mob needed a leader when a quiet
appearing lawyer, George Morris,
mounted an improvised rostrum and
harangued the throng.
The men knew Morris. They
knew his father, his brother and
knew the reputation of Morris in that
little community.
The mob dispersed, but not until
Morris had told them food would
come and that with it would 'come
clothing. For weeks afterwards
Morris and others worked side-by
side helping those men, dispersing
sacks of beans, peas, corn, flour,
cheap cuts of meat, potatoes and
medicine.
To-day the same man, whose
training as a farmer is book learned
as well as actual, is taking the lead
in rearranging the farming life of
his community by introducing new
farming methods.
His program is diversification,
one that all farm experts believe
will be the solution to the farming
problems of this state.
didn't know that Billie Burke end
Bar bare Bennett had dreeees deal cu
ed by Helen Paul. . . . I haven't
seen the new Medical Center since
the corner stone was laid. ... 1
have but a vague notion how to go
about buying a $200 hat or a $150
pair of stockings. ... 1 always have
to telephone to And out where the
big ocean liners dock. . . . And I’m
always forgetting the exact address
of important buildings, particularly
the new ones.
Oh, well, 1 live here and can wait
until some visitor from out home
comes along and sets me right.
But there seems to be no reason
why the visitors shouldn't have u
swell time running about the city
with a young library of swell new
guide books under their arms, read
ing as they run and getting knocked
over by taxi-cabs when they try to
cross streets.
But if you do want to do a little
home study before starting for this
town, two volumes on New York I’m
ready to recommend are ‘‘New York
Is .Everybody's Town,” by Helen Jo
sephy and Mary Margaret McBride,
and "All About New York,” by Rian
James, who already has'an opus out
about eating places.
Of course, no guide book of New
York can be expected to be very
permanent. Just-about the time the
book goes to press, Ave new build
ings go up, and those mentioned in
the book are torn down; 12 restau
rants close and 100 more open.
For instance, opening casually
M. James' volume I come upon
a chapter headed, "Things Out of
the Ordinary,” and read: "Daca, who
runs a bookshop on Washington
Square, is the only ex-cowboy book
seller in New York.” . . . Well, 1
hope you don’t try to flud Ducn
there, because he’s moved over to
12th street, or thereabouts. But
that’s the way things go In New
York!
At any rate, both of these tomes
are breezy, chatty and informative
Mons James, I believe, has a greater
collection of statistics, but “New
York Is Everybody's Town" has an
amazing collection of anecdotes
about places and things.
Written by women, it recalls thal|
fellow-women might want some Uat i
on beauty parlors and hair-dressing
emporiums; that they might want to
know what sort of clothes to bring
along and what to buy. Since the
authors are women, they had a slight
advantage. And as vintage reporters
on New York dailies, they have
saved up tons of human interest
touches.
I have learned from these
books, for instance, thut Mrs
Clarence Millhiser is reputed to have
spent a million decorating her apart
ment in the Rltz Towers. . . . That
there really arc seven Ogilve sisters,
those gals who know so much about
hair. . . , That Tom Hadden, who
shanghaied so many sailors, lived in
Cherry street, and that George
Washington once lived there, too. . .
That the Swamp Angel gang used
to hide its loot near Gotham court.
. . . That there, are two cigar store
Indians still in the streets. . . . That
Mauboussin, the awanky jeweler,
originated modernistic jewelry be
hind guarded doors for fear design
pirtacs would learn of his work. . . .
That ve'teran salesfolk at Best’s have
dressed certain famous folk and now
dress their offspring.
I have a notion that I’ll find
these volumes handy.
GILBERT SWAN. J
(Copyright, 1931, NEA Service, Inc) j
WHAT THE PRESS AGENTS SAY
CLARA BOW BABES LEAVE “IT”
FAME FOB DRAMA HONOR AT
FOX POLI PALACE
Is Clara Bow the victim ot her
own talent?
Will the public, having known her
only as a gay-hearted, poy-loving,
excitement-seeking youngster, allow
her to exercise her talents in her
chosen field of dramatic portrayal?
These are tho questions which
have been puzzling Paramount’s lit
tle redhead for several years past,'
and now, with her first real drama
tic role before tho public in “Kick
In” the attraction at the Fox-Poli
Palace theater here, she Is anxiously
awaiting the verdict.
Director after director has seen in
Clara Bow the attributes which
make for lasting stardom in deep
down emotional roles. Frank Tut
tle lauded her varsatility when, In
"Her Wedding Night,” he introduced
her In farce comedy. Richard Wal
lace. who directed Ruth Chatterton
in "The Right to Love,” sees in
Clara Bow an outstanding dramatic
personality.
Director Tuttle said recently
"Clara Bow has a faculty for de
livering perfect scenes without any
preliminary building up Or prepara
tion. That, to my mind is what
makes her one of the truly great
actresses of the time. Her new pic
ture, ‘Kick In,’ gives her an oppor
tunity to do something different and
to display those fine acting talents
which for so long, have remained
hidden.” (
"Clara Bow brings to her dramatic
emotional role in ‘Kick In,’ says
Wallace, “all the fire and verve
which made her the favorite of the
flappers, but, in Interpreting the ex
acting role of a girl who fights the
law and the temptations of lawless
ness for love and her man, she
evinces a deep-felt and compelling
understanding of character which is
seldom equalled, and never sur
passed, by any of the screen’s estab
lished dramatic favorites."
Seven Acts of Vaudeville and
Talkie Hit “Hell Bound" on Pro
gram at the Starnd Tomorrow
Warner Bros’ Strand has a delight
ful surprise In store for Its patrons
starting tomorrow when a big seven
act vaudeville show, topped off by
an exciting and highly entertaining
talking picture will be presented.
These acts, the very cream of the
crop, scouted from among Broad
way’s best Include enough variety
to satisfy the tastes of every Strand
patron. Tomorrow’s papers will carry
an announcement of them In detail.
The feature picture is “Hell Bound."
Imagine a show girl stranded
with Just enough money to reach the
suburbs of a large city; taken 111 on
train; collapsing at the station; be
ing mistaken for a notorious killer;
delivered to the home of a gang lead
er and left to his mercy! All this and
more happens to Platinum Reed,
heroine of “Hell Bound," the James
Cruze production.
When Platinum regains conscious
ness she finds herself being tenderly
cared for by Dr Robert Sanford,
Nick Cotrelll and a nurse. She did
not know how she got there. All
she knew was that these people were
playing the good Samaritans. She
did not dream that Nick Cotrelll was
a desperate gang leader, and that the
doctor had been kidnaped to attend
her.
But this and many other Interest
ing things she learns during the pro
gress of this underworld romance
written by Edward Dean Sullivan
and Adele Comandinl. •
Leo Carillo plays the gang leader
Lola Lane the heroine and Lloyd
Hughes the doctor, with other roles
portrayed by' Ralph Ince, Richard
Tucker, Gertrude Astor, Marty Faust,
William Lawrence, Harry Strung and
Helene Chadwick.
CHARLES G. NORRIS’ “SEED”
BOOKED FOR THE STATE
STARTING TO-MORROW
Warner Brothers' State theater
announces, as its feature attraction
for four days starting to-morrow,
Charles G. Norris’ finest novel,
"Seed” which has been made into
the greatest dramatic smash hit of
the current season.
Few readers of novels remain who
haven’t real this true-lo-llfe story,
a sensational gripping story of peo
ple, common people, living, loving,
fighting against the Immutable laws
of life.
The narrative concerns a man who
is faced with a difficult problem,
that of choosing between his beau
tiful wife and five charming chil
dren or fame, position, career,
money and public adulutlon. All
this is caused by another womun
who in a strange manner becomes
his Inspiration in spite of the fact
that he dearly loves his wife and
family.
This Is one of the most entertain
ing and frank discussions of the
marriage problem that has ever been
adapted to the talking screen. It
will prove one of the most popular
hits In the long .line that has been
brought to the State's screen in
rapid order.
The cast is a splendid one with
Genevieve Tobin, John Boles, Lois
Wilson, Zasu Pitts and other great
favorites in stellar roles.
A splendid program of short sub
jects has been booked by Manager
Julia M. Smith to accompany the
feature presentation.
If you enjoyed “Seed” as a novel
you will doubly enjoy It as a talk
ing picture and thrill to the charm,
beauty and frankness of its many
Interesting sequences as they unfold
on the talking screen.
It’s another hit In the State’s big
parade of hits and worthy of four
stars.
A British airplane route running
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Cape Town, 6,750 miles apart, is
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There are living birds of huge
size, among them the ostrich, but
the earth has beeri the home of
other birds, which died out long ago.
Some died out before there were any
people on earth, others nfter the
coming of mankind.
Giant bird which lived long before
there were people, on earth.
(After Lucas.)
Among: extinct birds are those
which have been given names
meaning “Terrible Bird," "High
Bird,” "Fat Bird." and "Thunder
Bird.”
Thunder Bird had leg-bones
larger thun those of a cow. What
we might call the "drumstick” was
two and a half feet long. Someone
has playfully called hint "a thunder
ing big bird.”
In 18114 a French traveler re
ported that the natives of Mada
guscar were In the custom of cut
ting certain eggs in two to make
bowls. Later travelers found entire
eggs and transported them to
Frunce. Birds of the kind which
laid the eggs are no longer to be
seen in Madagascar, or anywhere
else; but the eggs they laid have
been studied * with care. They
meusure us much as 13 inches In
length. Dr Frederic Lucas declared
that the shell of one of them is
large enough to hold thp contents
of six ostrich eggs, or 148 hen’s
eggs. From this statement you
muy gather that the egg is a large
one! Birds which laid such eggs
are known as High Birds, but they
were no taller than the modern os
trich.
A century ago. white men in
New Zealand were entertained by
it strange tale told by natives.
"A giant bird lives in the moun
tains.” said the natives. “He has
the head of a man, and he trumples
people to death. Wo have never
seen this bird, but we know he lives
there.”
Kfrorts by wnite men to tind sucn
a bird failed; but bones of a giant
type of bird were found'. This bird
call the Moa, is believed to have
died out long ago; and It is thought
the memory of him was handed
down In story form from generation
to generation among the New Zea
land savages. Skeletons show that
some of the Moas were 10 feet high.
A giant bird which once lived in
the southern part of South Ameri
ca. in the region called Patagonia,
had a large head and a hooked
beak. This is believed to have been
a bird-of-prey, feeding on other
birds and on mammals.
(Scrapbook Club members may
place this article In “Science” sec
tion, subhead “Geology.”)
Tomorrow — A Little Saturday Talk
UNCLE RAT.
SHADOW RANCH AND LEATHER
NECKING AT NEW GARDEN
Audiences want action, action and
more action, theater managers
everywhere say. Which is probably
why Buck Jones the western star
has flashed into new prominence.
Nobody Is more experienced than
Jones at setting jaded nerves quiver
ing with excitement. The smiling,
handsome cowboy actor and his
famous horse are known all over
the world. He can be depended on,
with his natural nerve and daring
feats of horsemanship to set hearts
pounding and hands clutching the
sides of seats .from the filrst flash of
the picture to the last.
Film-goers will find that he has
exceeded himself to meet a great
new demand for thrills In his latest
Columbia feature, “Shadow Ranch”
which comes to the New Garden
theater. Expert riding, gunfighta,
hand-to-hand combats and spectacu
lar stunts fill this outdoor drama,
with an unusual love story and a lib
eral sprinkling of hilarious comedy.
Buck Is surrounded by a well-known
cast of players including Marguerite
Pe La Motte, Kate Price and Frank
Rice.
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DOUBLE FEATURE BILL AT
WARNER BROTHERS’ STRAND
TO CONCLUDE ENGAGEMENT
Performances this afternoon and
evening mark the Anal showings of
the deluxe double feature bill now
being shown at Warner Brothers’
Strand theater.
In the featured spot is "Born to
Love," Constance Bennett’s latest
staring hit which is playing a popu
lar request return engagement. Here
is a story about all beautiful women
that women will enjoy from start to
finish. Originality, so rare in motion
picture plots to-day, is one of the
outstanding features of this picture.
In Miss Bennett’s supporting cast
are such talented players as Joel
McCrea, Paul Cavunagh, Anthony
BuBhell, Frederick Kerr and Louise
Closser Hale. Paul L. Stein, the
Viennese, directed from a' story by
Ernest Pascal written especially for
Miss Bennett. This one rates four
stars and. then some.
The companion feature Is the
talking screen version of Victor Her
bert's Immortal "Mile Modiste.” Un
der Its new cloak of modernism ft
has been named “Kiss Me Again."
A clever cast et players Interpret
the story, which adheres closely to
the original, and best known among
them are Bernice Olalre, Edward
Everett Horton, June Collyer, Frank
McHugh, Claude Glllingwater . and
Albert Gran.
NEW THRILLER •‘THE PUBLIC
ENEMY" TO CLOSE LOCAL
ENGAGEMENT AT STATE
Performances this afternoon and
evening mark the final showings of
the super thriller “The Public
Enemy” which has been drawing
record crowds to Warner Brothers'
State theater the past two days.
Here is a picture that gives a suc
cinct summary of the evolution of
modern racketeering. It’s packed
with weird and ghastly .sequences
and should be avoided by persons
with weak hearts. The story begins
in 1909 with two young boys, por
trayed by Junior Coghland and
Frankie Darro, who sucaumb to the
Influence of their environment and
start out life as petty thieves.
The story then carries . one
through 1917—the war, prohibition
and Its attendant, illegal traffic in
liquor. The boys, now grown up,
enter Into the beer racket and be
tures' "Leatherneeking,” which is
the co-feubwa.
Also on the bill Is a new chapter
of “The King of the Wild” and "The
Chgmptyn” of the Leather Pushers
come veritable leaders In their line.
James Cagney and Edward Woods
play the parts of the grown-up
gangsters with a spontaneous ability
which lends the flips the final touch
in realism. Cagney particularly,
leads this parade ot starkness with
n powerful performance which will
long stand out in the mind of any
audience. This picture reveals him
as an actor to be reckoned with in
any list of fllmdom’a best.
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SECOND PICTURE PROVES
TRACY PERMANENT ADDI
TION TO THE SCREEN
Former Stage Star Follows Success
In “Up the River” With Great
Character Work in Rowland
Brown Directed “Quick Mil
lions,” Fox Romance
Spencer Tracy, who made an un
usual debut in talking pictures u
short time ago in John Ford’s com
edy of prison life, "Up the River,”
demonstrates that his success in that
picture was no accident with "Quick
Millions," which had its premiere
performance at the Fox Poll Palace
last night.
this picture, a Fox romance, Is
made to order for Tracy and It la
hard to Imagine another actor doing
such a great job as this recent
Broadway star does In the role of
“Bugs Baymond.”
"Bugs” Is a truck driver with am
bitions, social as well as commercial.
He launches on a "business" career
and soon we see him as the boss of
his city, the most powerful figure in
business, society and public affairs.
Everything goes smoothly until
"Bugs" falls In love with the sister
of the man whom he has forced to
accept him as a partner. He decides
to get a “legitimate racket.” Things
strike a snag when the girl, capably
played by Marguerite Churchill, re
jects his proposal. He plans to re
venge himself on the society girl by
kidnapping her from her wedding to
a college boy.
Too late he discovers that he has
forfeited any loyalty he might have
expected from his former associates.
Bally Ellers does an excellent
piece of work as "Daisy," the girl
who helps “Bugs" climb from the
gutter, only to be cast aaslde when
he gets silk hat Ideas.
Warner IMchmond Is satisfactorily
menacing and suave as “Bugs’ " first
lieutenant who succeeds to com
mand when the boss goes In for so
ciety.
Rowland Brown, who created a
sensation with his first picture, “Tbs
Doorway to Hell," proves himself a